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nickdalzell said:
It worked for me? Maybe it only works on the Acer C7...it should bring up a terminal full-screen with a prompt.
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But I have the same Acer you do.

Oh well, don't worry about it! Three guesses...no, ONE guess, what I'm doing right now on the brand-spanking-new Chromebook... Hint: EM posted a link to it yesterday. :D
 
Okay, I think I've seen enough to know that I don't want or need ChromeOS. I'd strongly prefer just a pure *buntu install.

So I'm now trying to figure out if I can manipulate its pseudo-*buntu install to become its only OS. In other words, use what's already there instead of needing a downloaded copy of *buntu on a...not disc, since the Chromebook has no disc drive, and I don't have any spare USB sticks...something. :confused:

gParted shows me a ton of partitions, including /dev/sdaX, where X=1 through 12, plus three unallocated.

Anyone have any experience with what I'm after? (Is it even clear WHAT I'm after? :))

If I had to do it via a conventional method, could I download an ISO onto an external (USB-powered) hard drive and install it from there? But I don't know how/if I can boot up from that. *more confusion*
 
What size storage did you get, MB?

Follow my ChrUbuntu link for dealing with /dev/sda usb/SD resolution.

If you got the 320 GB HD, I don't think you'll need to worry about other storage.
 
MoodyBlues said:
Okay, I think I've seen enough to know that I don't want or need ChromeOS. I'd strongly prefer just a pure *buntu install.

So I'm now trying to figure out if I can manipulate its pseudo-*buntu install to become its only OS. In other words, use what's already there instead of needing a downloaded copy of *buntu on a...not disc, since the Chromebook has no disc drive, and I don't have any spare USB sticks...something. :confused:

gParted shows me a ton of partitions, including /dev/sdaX, where X=1 through 12, plus three unallocated.

Anyone have any experience with what I'm after? (Is it even clear WHAT I'm after? :))

If I had to do it via a conventional method, could I download an ISO onto an external (USB-powered) hard drive and install it from there? But I don't know how/if I can boot up from that. *more confusion*
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This maybe? Poking around your Chrome OS Device - The Chromium Projects
 
chroot or dual boot, both are pure installs - the sites linked help you with the tools you need because this is another case - it's not UEFI nor a PC BIOS.

So I think trying for a usb iso install is doomed because it's ignoring that constraint.

I could be wrong.
 
EarlyMon said:
I think this answers your other questions.
How to install Ubuntu 12.04 on the $199 Acer C7 Chromebook - Liliputing
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Thanks. I'm looking at it now. Stay tuned! :D

ETA: Okay, after reading the above, as well as the blog post it refers to for the remainder of instructions, it seems that's not quite it. I want to get rid of ChromeOS altogether, not have a choice of booting it or Ubuntu. But...

chroot or dual boot, both are pure installs
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I'm not sure what you mean by pure installs. The way my current setup (what I got by following your post from yesterday) works is that it lets you log in to KDE (or whatever DE you chose to install), but when you exit from it you're back in ChromeOS. Without shutting down, restarting, logging out, etc. You invoke it with sudo startkde at a prompt, and when you exit you're back in ChromeOS's file system. So it's not exactly dual-booting, but sub-booting, or something. :) I want it to be ONLY booting! :D

the sites linked help you with the tools you need because this is another case - it's not UEFI nor a PC BIOS.

So I think trying for a usb iso install is doomed because it's ignoring that constraint.
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Wait...am I understanding correctly that I can't just wipe the drive and install *buntu (or any other distro)?
 
I got the SSD with like 9gb so I must have bought the last of the last generation C7s. :(

I ran this script in ChromeOSs terminal and it auto boots to Ubuntu on its own (I have zero access to ChromeOS even if running the reverse script in Ubuntu ) but sits at a warning screen for a minute before (OS VERIFICATION IS OFF). I don't think you can disable that boot screen...

The terminal in ChromeOS is ctrl-alt-F2. If it isn't working for you Moody I don't know what...
 
Okay, this iteration of Plasma looks better than the last one I tried, but good Lord, the fonts and window designs are still stuck in the freakin' '90s.

... and please, someone tell me how to mute the damn speaker!



... sorry, in a bad mood today-- tired, too much business to do today and my daughter has house music blasting through the damn house.
 
Dngrsone said:
Okay, this iteration of Plasma looks better than the last one I tried, but good Lord, the fonts and window designs are still stuck in the freakin' '90s.
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So change them! There are probably a billion...no, a gazillion...to choose from, so have at it! :) You can find many within Synaptic (or whatever you're using), and then some more via 'get new themes' (or similar) in settings. I guarantee you *MY* KDE desktops do not look stuck in the '90s. :D

... and please, someone tell me how to mute the damn speaker!
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Um...either with volume control keys on your computer (mine are above the 9, 0, and - on this laptop), or by clicking on the volume control icon (mine is in my taskbar where I put it).

... sorry, in a bad mood today-- tired, too much business to do today and my daughter has house music blasting through the damn house.
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*nods knowingly* (although it's been a while since my daughter was blasting music in my house--trust me, one day you'll MISS that sound!)
 
nickdalzell said:
I ran this script in ChromeOSs terminal and it auto boots to Ubuntu on its own (I have zero access to ChromeOS even if running the reverse script in Ubuntu ) but sits at a warning screen for a minute before (OS VERIFICATION IS OFF). I don't think you can disable that boot screen...
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Guess what I'm doing right now? :idea: I'm doing the ChrUbuntu thing. :D Will see if I like that better than what I had last night.

The terminal in ChromeOS is ctrl-alt-F2. If it isn't working for you Moody I don't know what...
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Will try again when it's accessible...although it will be a moot point, if I don't have to actually see ChromeOS when this is done. :)

ETA: Okay, I feel like I'm in an endless loop of getting nowhere. :( I've followed the instructions here to the letter. Everything seems to be cranking along as expected. But not exactly.

The first issue is that I'm never given the partition sizing option mentioned in #6 and #7.

And then, after it says it's done and I can now hit [enter] to start ChrUbuntu, when I hit [enter] I get ChromeOS. It says I can log in with user user and password user, but that certainly doesn't work since I'm back in ChromeOS. Using [ctrl][atl][-->] to get a terminal, I cannot log in with that user name and password. So I log back in as user chronos, and go through the steps again...and that's where the endless loop comes in. It's like lather, rinse, repeat.

WHAT am I missing? :confused:
 
MoodyBlues said:
So change them! There are probably a billion...no, a gazillion...to choose from, so have at it! :) You can find many within Synaptic (or whatever you're using), and then some more via 'get new themes' (or similar) in settings. I guarantee you *MY* KDE desktops do not look stuck in the '90s. :D


Um...either with volume control keys on your computer (mine are above the 9, 0, and - on this laptop), or by clicking on the volume control icon (mine is in my taskbar where I put it).
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Also, while I'm complaining, KDE changed my system fonts, even in Cinnamon. :/

How do I put that task bar to the top, and where do I get the speaker icon to sit on it... my functions keys don't work in Plasma, so I've been bombarded with system sounds while messing around with settings.

grumble, grumble... gripe, gripe... :p
 
Okay, after a bit of searching around, and I found this which helped me in a roundabout way to fix things, at least in the Cinnamon side. Firefox was the worst culprit, see...

Now things look more normalish.
 
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